Reversible tuft pile carpet or rug



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UFT PILE CAR PET OR R

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y am i ATTORNEY March 14, 1933. w. B. COOPER ITAL Filed March 28, 1932 /NvEn/TOR ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 14, 1933 AUNITED STATES PATENT oFFIcE. g

'WELLESLEY B. COOPER ERNEST T. PHOENIX, OF AMSTERDAM, NEW YORK, AS- SIGNORS T BIGELOW-SANFORD CAB/PET CO., INC., OF THOMPSONVILLE, CONNECT- IGUT, A. CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS i BEVERSELE TUFT PLE CARPET OB RUG Application med March 28, 1932. Serial No. 801,560.

rihis invention relates to reversible-tuft pile fabrics, such as carpets and rugs, and more. particularly to such in which a 'padding forms a part thereof.

Heretofore it has lbeen the practice to lay lining upon oors beneath carpets and rugs to increase tread softness .and wearing properties. This is objectionable particularly 1n the case of rugs because any displacement l@ of the rug will tend to expose the underlying padding or lining, and the use of the sepa'- rate padding or lining permits relative movement between it and the rug and .increases the tendency of the rug to slip.'

An important feature of thel present invention, therefore, resides in a carpet or rug and a padding combined or integrated in a single structure. 1

further feature of the invention resides in a reversible rug or carpet having one wear surface formed of pile tufts and a second wear surface formed of this interwoven padding material having a printed or stencilled design or pattern. y

A reversible rug or carpet constructed in accordance with the present invention is well adapted for continuous year round use. During the winter months it may be placed on the ioor with its pile face up and forming the tread surface, and during the summer it may be turned over so that the surface formed by the padding material will 'constitute an attractive tread.

The padding material is preferably formed of large soft strands of padding wefts laid side by side to form a plain woven backing surface that is not only soft and yielding to the tread, but different in appearance from' the pile face of the rug by reason of the 40 pattern or design printed or stencilled there- Each strand of padding may be formed of several soft twisted yarns formin a ply yarn of low tensile strength but having pronounced cushioning properties. In pracresent invention will be further understood rom the following description and accompanying drawings wherein Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the pile face of a rug constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig, 2 is a perspective view of the opposite wear surface of the rug of Fig. 1; y

Fig. 3 on an enlarged scale is a longitudinal sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view ofthe rug of Fig. 3.

The reversible rug or carpet of the present invention has one wear or tread surface formed of the pile tufts 1 and an opposite wear or tread surface formed of the large soft strands of padding wefts 2. The arrangement is such that when, the pile face of the fabric is up, as shown in Fig. 1, the padding wefts 2 serve'to increase the thickness of the fabric, its softness of tread, and prevent slipping, and when the printed or stencilled face of the fabric is up, as shown in Fig. 2, the pile 1 rests upon the Hoor 3, and acts as a cushioning pad, Iwhile the softness of the strands 2 imparts to the printed or stencilled surface further yield to the tread.

The pile 1 may be colored to present any desired design or pattern, and an entirely different pattern or design may be stencilled or printed upon the opposite face of the fab- 5 Whereas when the opposite Wear face is up it will resemble theweave of a rug or carpet such as used during the summer months.

The padding wefts 2 are much larger than the other yarns of the ground structure and may be formed of cotton or other soft spun fibres, twistedtogether to form ply yarns, as shown.

It is important that the padding Wefts 2 be secured to the ground structure side by side in contacting relation, so that they will form a wear surface completely concealingv the interior structure of the fabric when the padding surface is uppermost. This is accomplished by laying the padding wefts 2 at the back of the relatively straight stuifer warps 4. At the opposite side of the warps 4 the anchoring wefts 5 are laid within the loop of the pile forming yarns, and the separating wefts 6 are extended between the transverse rows of tufts 1.

The large padding wefts 2 are bound to the weft shots 6 by the binder warps 7 which extend inwardly between each pair of padding wefts and around a weft shot 6. The tuft anchoring weft shots 5 are secured by the binder warps 8 which extend under the weft h'ots 6 and over the weft shots 5, as shown in There is preferably one stuffer Warp 4, a. binder warp 7 and a binder warp 8 for each longitudinal row of tufts l and the warps 4, 7 and 8 are preferably grouped together, as shown in Fig. 4, so that the base or loop of each tuft 1 may rest firmly upon the large soft padding weft 2, between the groups of warps, as shown in Fig. 4.

The tendency of the binder warps 7 to cut deep into the soft padding wefts 2 is prevented by associating with the padding weft 2 the smaller and harder twisted wefts 9 so that they will resist the cutting action of the yarns 7, as will be apparent from Fig. 3.

From the construction described as an embodiment of the present invention it will be noted the padding or lining heretofore separate from the carpet or rug, is by this invention permanently connected or integrated with the carpet or rug, and so interwoven4 therewith that it forms a backing which conceals the fabric structure and presents a weaving surface of'uniform character capableof receiving a printed or stencilled pattern thus adapting the carpet or rug to be used with either side presented as the tread surface. The pile forming tufts are looped about a surface weft shot and the loops of the tufts are supported on the padding weft shots 2, thereby securing the desired softness of tread on the pile surface with less length of 'tuft menace lation and concealing the threads of the over lying ground fabric to form a tread surface, smaller hard twisted weft shots extending along with the padding weft shots, pile forming tufts loopedabout top surface anchoring weft shots and having their loops resting upon the padding weft shots, and binder warps arranged to bind the padding weft shots and pile fcrming tufts to the ground fabric so that the carpet or rug has a top pile tread surface and a back padding tread surface and is reversible for use of either uppermost.

2. A carpet or rug includin a ground fabric having a patterned tuft pile surface and a cushion or padding back permanently secured to the ground fabric and com rising soft padding ply yarn constituting wel shots laid in close contacting relation to conceal the threads of the overlying ground fabric and provide a tread surface having a printed pattern thereon, pile forming tufts looped about the top surface anchorin yweft shots and having their loops supporte Von the padding weft shots, binder warps binding the padding weft shots and the pile forming tufts to the ground fabric, smaller hard twisted weft shots laid with and embedded in the padding weft shots to resist the tension of the binder warps on the soft padding weft shots so that the carpet or rug has a patterned tuft tread surface and a printed patterned back tread surface adapting the carpet or rug for use with either tread surface uppermost.

3. A reversible carpet or ru provided at one side with a pile surface or use as the wear surface in cold weather and at the other side with a lain woven surface for use as the wear sur ace in warm weather, com rising a fabric provided with substantially straight stufer war s having secured at one side large strands o padding wefts laid side by side in contacting relation to form a yielding wear surface, pile tufts looped about anchoring wefts at the opposite side of said stuifer warps to form the first mentioned wear surface,.binder warps looped about the anchoring wefts and padding wefts to bind them to the fabric, and small strong wefts extending along and partly embedded in said padding wefts to protect the latter from the cutting action of said binder warps.

4. A reversible tuft pile carpet or rug provided at one side with a pile surface for use as the wear surface in cold Weather, and at the other side with a plain woven surface for use 'as the wear surface in warm weather, com

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large strands of padding weft laid side by side in contacting relation to form oyiel wear surface, smailerand stro r wofts loi at the opposite side of the 1 er warps and fog anchoring wefts for binding rows of tufts to the gbric and separating'webs positioned between said rows of tufts, and s. set of chain warps interlocked about said anchoring and separating wets and another set of chain war s looped around said sepr mating wefts an paddmgwefts.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our mames to this :im ifscation.

'1" LLESLEY B. COPER. ERNEST T. PHOENIX. 

